Peter Howell demonstrates the Dr Who theme on Arp Odyssey & Yamaha CS-80

Great little clip of Peter Howell explaining how he produced his version of the Dr Who theme using an Arp Odyssey and Yamaha CS-80. This is in the late, great BBC Radiophonic Workshop, of course.

Synth film - 'Bright Sparks'

Highly, highly recommend this documentary all about 10 of the most classic synths ever made:

http://brightsparks.movie/

Great interviews with the inventors and users of these instruments.

Not only that, but a great album was created with each track showcasing each synth featured in the film. It's the complete package!

 

SpecDrums - audio unit

I was desperate to own SpecDrums as a child of the 80s, but never did. 

Now I can! http://www.samplescience.ca/2016/01/specdrums.html

 

Check out the fun retro demo song - you couldn't really write any other of sort of track to go with those sounds really. 

 

 

Videos

Great video of Jean-Michel Jarre demonstrating his Oxygene era synths

Features Arp 2600, VSC 3 and many other of his beautiful, classic synthesizers.

Beautiful. Incidentally Equinoxe IV was the track that made me want to be a composer. So look out for the Eminent 310 in this video...